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January 1 – British Columbia changes from driving on the left to the right
January 11 – The world's first insulin treatment is made at the Toronto General Hospital. The successful technique would later win a Nobel Prize for its creators, Frederick Banting and Charles Best.
April 5 – Charles Dunning becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing William Martin
May 3 – The women of Prince Edward Island win the right to vote
July – Rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle is designed and made by rodeo cowboy and saddle maker Earl Bascom at the Bascom Ranch, Lethbridge, Alberta
August 8 – John Bracken becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Tobias Norris
September 15 – Prime Minister Mackenzie King refuses to support the British in the Chanak Affair, asserting foreign policy independence for the first time
October 9 – Prairie Bible College opens with eight students in Three Hills, Alberta
October 22 – Dante Monument unveiled in Montreal
December 1 – New Brunswick changes from driving on the left to the right
December 5 – The land around Vimy Ridge is given to Canada by France in gratitude for the Canadian sacrifices during World War I

Full date unknown

Montreal Clock Tower completed
The first licences for private commercial radio stations are issued^[2]

Sport

March 20–22 – The Ontario Hockey Association's Fort William War Veterans win their only Memorial Cup by defeating the South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Regina Pats 8 to 7 in a two-game aggregate played at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg
March 28 – The NHL's Toronto St. Pats win their first Stanley Cup by defeating the Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Vancouver Millionaires 3 games to 2. The deciding game was played at Toronto's Arena Gardens
December 2 – Queen's University win their first Grey Cup by defeating the Edmonton Elks 13 to 1 in the 10th Grey Cup played at Kingston's Richardson Memorial Stadium

Arts and literature

Nanook of the North is released, the first film to be called a documentary

Births

January to June

January 21
- Lincoln Alexander, politician and 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d. 2012)
- Rhoda Wurtele and Rhona Wurtele (d. 2020), skiers
February 13 – Fred E. Soucy, politician
February 18 – J. Keith Fraser, physical geographer
February 25
- Molly Bobak, teacher, writer, printmaker and painter (d. 2015)
- Molly Reilly, aviator (d. 1980)
April 3 – Maurice Riel, senator (d. 2007)
April 7 – Nancy Mackay, athlete (d. 2016)
April 24 – Philip Givens, politician, judge and Mayor of Toronto (d. 1995)
April 26 – Jeanne Sauvé, politician and first female Governor General of Canada (d. 1993)^[3]
April 28 – Daryl Seaman, businessman (d. 2009)
May 2 – Alastair Gillespie, businessman and politician (d. 2018)
May 2 – A. M. Rosenthal, columnist and newspaper editor (d. 2006)
May 3 – Jeanne Landry, composer, pianist and teacher (d. 2011)
May 26 – Lorraine Monk, photographer (d. 2020)
June 9 – Fernand Seguin, biochemist, professor and television host (d. 1988)
June 11 – Erving Goffman, sociologist and writer (d. 1982)
June 22 – Richard Vollenweider, limnologist (d. 2007)

July to September

July 1 – Derek Riley, rower (d. 2018)
July 5 – Doris Margaret Anderson, nutritionist and politician (d. 2022)
July 13 – Ken Mosdell, ice hockey player (d. 2006)
July 14
- Bill Millin, piper (d. 2010)
- Gerald Myrden, businessman (d. 2016)
July 16 – Augustin Brassard, politician (d. 1971)
July 18 – Harry Kermode, basketball player (d. 2009)
July 23 – Jenny Pike, WWII servicewoman and photographer (d. 2004)
July 30 – Jack McClelland, publisher (d. 2004)
August 7 – Helmut Kallmann, historian (d. 2012)
August 11 – Mavis Gallant, writer (d. 2014)
August 24 – René Lévesque, politician, Minister and 23rd Premier of Quebec (d. 1987)
September 1 – Yvonne De Carlo, actress, dancer and singer (d. 2007)
September 3 – Salli Terri, singer, arranger, recording artist and songwriter (d. 1996)
September 16 – Alex Barris, actor and writer (d. 2004)

October to December

October 9 – Léon Dion, political scientist (d. 1997)
October 17 – Pierre Juneau, politician and film and broadcast executive (d. 2012)
November 12 – Charlotte MacLeod, writer (d. 2005)
December 3 – Muriel Millard, actress, dancer, painter, singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
December 11 – Pauline Jewett, politician and educator (d. 1992)
December 22 – Percy Smith, barrister, lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
December 25 – Steve Wochy, ice hockey player

Full date unknown

Milt Harradence, lawyer, pilot, politician and judge (d. 2008)
Hilda Watson, leader of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party (d. 1997)

Deaths

January 26 – Robert Beith, politician (b. 1843)
February 4 – Joe Fortes, lifeguard (b. 1863)
April 12 – Robert Boston, politician (b. 1836)
May 23 – Robert Franklin Sutherland, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1859)
July 22 – Sara Jeannette Duncan, author and journalist (b. 1861)
August 2 – Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone (b. 1847)
December 3 – William Proudfoot, politician and barrister (b. 1859)

Historical documents

References

^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^ "CBC/Radio-Canada – Our History – 1920–1939". CBC.ca. Archived from the original on 2012-03-01. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
^ "Jeanne Sauvé | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
^ P.H. Bryce, The Story of a National Crime (1922). Accessed 9 June 2021
^ Leslie M. Roberts, "Poppy Day 'Poppy Cock'" The Axe; A Journal of Action against Reaction, No. 4 (February 3, 1922), pg. 3. Accessed 17 April 2020
^ "Proceedings and Minutes of Evidence" (April 26, 1922), Pensions, Soldiers' Insurance and Re-Establishment; Proceedings of the [House] Special Committee[....], pg. 177. Accessed 15 October 2020 (See also Commons debate citing calls for "oriental exclusion" from Retail Merchants' Association of Canada, Great War Veterans Association, Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and United Farmers of British Columbia)
^ "Mary Riter Hamilton: Traces of War," Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 17 April 2020 https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/mary-riter-hamilton/Pages/introduction.aspx (click on each of the Thematic Galleries)
^ Clifford Sifton, "The Immigrants Canada Wants" Maclean's (April 1, 1922). Accessed 8 January 2023
^ Clifford Sifton, "The Political Status of Canada; Address before the Canadian Club of Ottawa; April 8, 1922. Accessed 21 April 2020 http://www.archive.org/details/politicalstatuso00siftuoft (note: pgs. 2-3 missing)
^ "Canada Lands Attractive to U.S. Farmers" The (Edmonton) Morning Bulletin (January 27, 1922), pg. 1. Accessed 21 April 2020
^ "Minutes of Evidence" (April 6, 1922), [House Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization; Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence, pgs. 5. Accessed 15 October 2020
^ "Minutes of Evidence" (April 21, 1922), Official Report of Evidence Taken by the Marine and Fisheries Committee of the House[,] Respecting Fisheries of British Columbia, pgs. 6, 17-18. Accessed 15 October 2020
^ "Work on Diabetes Shows Progress against Disease" (Toronto) Star Weekly (January 14, 1922). Accessed 21 April 2020
^ "When Quebec Led the World" Montreal Daily Star (December 16, 1922). Accessed 21 April 2020
^ Raoul Dandurand (March 14, 1922) Senate Debates, 14th Parliament, 1st Session: Vol. 1, pgs. 15-16. Accessed 8 November 2020
^ Maurice Spector address taken from The Worker (March 15, 1922). Accessed 21 April 2020
^ Florence Custance, "Women and The New Age" The Worker (May 1, 1922). Accessed 21 April 2020
^ E.C. Drury, "Prohibition in the Province of Ontario" International Convention; The World League Against Alcoholism; Toronto, Canada; November 24th-29th, 1922. Accessed 21 April 2020
^ Harold B. Whidden, "My Experiences at the MacDonald Homestead" (1922). Accessed 22 April 2020
^ "Sunken Craft Still Visible" Daily (Kingston, Ont.) British Whig (November 20, 1922). Accessed 22 April 2020

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